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Aug 24, 2009

Hen

1900s

Nigeria, Benin Kingdom, Ẹdo peoples, member(s) of the Igbesanmwan (wood and ivory carvers) guild

Wood

Overall: 47.6 cm (18 3/4 in.)

Gift of Katherine C. White 1973.221

Location

108A Sub-Saharan

Description

The interlacing pattern on the base of this sculpture can be seen in Benin Kingdom works in materials from wood to ivory to metal.

Provenance

1900s

Commissioned from the Igbesanmwan, Benin Kingdom

no earlier than 1961

(Robert L. Stolper gallery, New York City)

by at least 1962

Katherine C. White [1929-1980], Gates Mills, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art ¹

1973–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH ²

Provenance Footnotes

¹• Photo negative in curatorial file with reference date 1/1/1962
• Published in African Tribal Images (CMA 1968) as cat. No. 150

²Acquired as gift at December 28, 1973 meeting Acquisition publicized in CMA Bulletin Feb 1974 “Year in Review 1973” (cat. #13, repr. p. 71)

Citations

"The Year in Review for 1968." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 61, no. 2 (February 1974): 31-78. Reproduced: p. 71, cat. 13; mentioned: p. 73, cat. 13 www.jstor.org

Fagg, William. African Tribal Images; the Katherine White Reswick Collection. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1968. Reproduced: cat. 150

Broudy, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Youngblood. Icon and Symbol : The Cult of the Ancestor in African Art. Bloomfield Hills, MI: Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, 1975

Windmuller-Luna, Kristen. “Art from the Benin Kingdom.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 1 (Winter 2021): 34-35. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 34-35.

Digital Benin, Markk Museum Am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Kunste der Welt, (Last Updated: 2021-02-13) ID 147489 digitalbenin.org

Exhibition history

African Tribal Images: The Katherine White Reswick Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10 – September 1, 1968)

Icon and symbol : The cult of the ancestor in African art. Cranbrook Academy of Art/Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (May 30–July 20, 1975)

Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).

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